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- Title
Historical Personalities: Tweeting Standard Narratives in the History of Science.
- Authors
Lee, Clarissa
- Abstract
An essay is presented which discusses the role that tweets, or microblogs, on the social media web resource Twitter plays in developing narratives in the history of science. An overview of practice of establishing Twitter accounts for historical scientists, including the English physicist Sir Isaac Newton, is provided.
- Subjects
HISTORY of science; TWITTER (Web resource); MICROBLOGS -- Social aspects; NARRATIVES -- Social aspects; SOCIAL media &; society; SCIENTISTS; ONLINE social networks; COMPUTER network resources; HISTORY
- Publication
Medical History, 2014, Vol 58, Issue 4, p627
- ISSN
0025-7273
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1017/mdh.2014.63